Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 29Nov1937,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 29, 1937 - November 29, 1937

Page Size: 911 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101		Rodericus, Speculum vite humane, etc.		1510	GBP -	3.05
102		Biblia Sacra Vulgate ed. Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. jussu recognita		1616	GBP -	0.05
103	SPENSER EDMUND	COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAINE		1595	GBP -	42.00
104	Shirley James	The Triumph of Peace, a Masque		1633	GBP -	0.05
105	MARTYN JOSEPH	NEW EPIGRAMS, AND A SATYRE		1621	GBP -	12.00
106	Kirchmeyer Thomas	The Popish Kingdome, or reigne of Antichrist ...		1570	GBP -	0.10
107	Cromwell Elizabeth	The Court and Kitchin of Elizabeth		1664	GBP -	3.00
108	Swift Jonathan	The Characters of two Independent Whigs		1720	GBP -	0.18
109		Agricultural News		1902-21	GBP -	0.05
110		Architectural Review		1908-16	GBP -	1.15
111		Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie		1888-1912	GBP -	1.15
112		ARCHIV FUR VERDAUUNGSKRANKHEITEN, mit Einschluss der Stoffwechselpathologie, Band 1-30		1895-1921	GBP -	3.00
113		Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes		1896-1913, 1896-1913	GBP -	0.10
114		Beiblatter zu den Annalen der Physik u. Chemie, Band 1-38		1877-1914	GBP -	0.10
115		Beiblatter zu den Annalen, another run, Bd. 8-32		1884-1908	GBP -	0.10
116		Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt			GBP -	0.05
117		Bollettino della societa Geografiea Italiana		1868-1923	GBP -	4.05
118		Bombay Natural History Society		1886-1919	GBP -	5.00
119		British Association Reports		1861-1914	GBP -	2.15
120		British School at Athens		1899-1911	GBP -	1.05
121		Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Proceedings and Com-munications		1841-1931	GBP -	1.10
122		Chemical Industry Society of, Journal		1895-1925	GBP -	3.00
123		Civil Engineers Institution of Proceedings, etc.		1874-1923	GBP -	Not Sold
124		Entomologist's Monthly Magazine		1872-93, 1864-5	GBP -	1.00
125		Ergebnisse der Physiologie, Jahrg. 1-12		1902-12	GBP -	1.10
126		Geographical Journal		1893-1930	GBP -	1.00
127		Geological Society of London, Quarterly Journal		1885-1921	GBP -	2.10
128		Investors Monthly Manual, New series		1883-1905	GBP -	0.05
129		Iron and Steel Institue, Journal		1876-1899, 1876-99	GBP -	0.10
130		Jahrbuch der Astronomie u. Geophysik		1890-1914	GBP -	1.05
131		Jahrbuch der Deutschen Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft		1887-1923	GBP -	2.15
132		Jahresbericht über die Portschritte der Agrikulturchemie		1860-1921	GBP -	10.00
133		JAHRESBERICHT ÜBER DIE PORTSCHRITTE DER THIER-CHEMIE, Band 1-49 u. Register		1873-1922	GBP -	24.00
134		Jahresbericht über die Portschritte in der Lehre von den Gärungsorganismen		1891-1905	GBP -	0.10
135		Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply and Sanitary Improvement		1888-1925	GBP -	4.05
136		Journal of Institute of Bankers		1890-1906	GBP -	Not Sold
137		London Medical Society. Proceedings and Transactions		1872-1930	GBP -	Not Sold
138		Manchester Association of Engineers, Transactions		1906-22	GBP -	Not Sold
139		Moniteur Scientifique du Dr. Quesneville		1857-1922, 1857-1922	GBP -	5.00
140		Natural Science		1892-99	GBP -	1.05
141		Naval Architects (Institution of) Transactions		1860-1921	GBP -	5.05
142		North of England Institute of Mining Engineers		1853-91	GBP -	0.05
143		Physical Society of London. Proceedings		1915-31	GBP -	2.05
144		Repertorium der Physik, hrsg. v. P. Carl u. F. Exner		1866-91	GBP -	1.00
145		Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland		1883-1917	GBP -	0.05
146		ROYAL SOCIETY of London. Philosophical Transactions, Idem, Series A, Idem, Series B.		1869-1883, 1893-1904, 1887-1916	GBP -	6.00
147		Schriften der königlichen Physikaliseh-Oekonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg, Jahrg. 1-24		1860-1922	GBP -	4.05
148		Verhandlungen den Physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin		1882-1924	GBP -	4.00
149		Zeitschrift für Angewandte Chemie		1916-27	GBP -	0.05
150		Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie		1891-5	GBP -	0.05
151		Zoological Society of London, Proceedings, etc.			GBP -	3.00
152		Various odd runs of Journals, etc.			GBP -	0.15
153		Bossuet Correspondence de nouv. éd. par C. Urbain et B. Levesque	Paris	1909-13	GBP -	1.05
154		Chateaubriand J. A. R., comte de Oeuvres complètes		1826-31	GBP -	2.15
155	Ocampo Florian de y Morales A. de	Coronica general de Espana, Antiguedades de los Ciudades, Reyes de Castilla y de Leon, Opusculos castellanos		1791-3	GBP -	2.00
156	Smollett Tobias	Advice, and Reproof : Two Satires		1748	GBP -	0.14
157	GOLDSMITH O.	The Deserted Village, A Poem		1770	GBP -	2.15
158	Taylor Thos.	Christs combate and conquest		1618	GBP -	0.10
159	Behmen Jacob	Concerning the Election of Grace, commonly called Predestination		1655	GBP -	0.10
160	Ussher James	Answer to a challenge made by a Jesuite in Ireland	Dublin	1624	GBP -	0.10
161	Norris Sylvester	Antidote against the pestiferous Writings of all English Sectaries		1615	GBP -	0.10
162	Cocus Rob.	Censura quorundam scriptorum, quae nominibus sanctorum et veterum auctorum, citari soient		1623	GBP -	Not Sold
163	Willis Thos.	Cerebri anatome, cui acc. nervorum des-criptio et usu		1664	GBP -	5.00
164	Willis Thos.	Pharmaceutice rationalis		1674-5	GBP -	4.05
165	Willis Thos.	De anima brutorum quae hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est		1672	GBP -	5.00
166	Alabaster Wm.	Ecce Sponsus venit. Tuba pulchritudinis		1663	GBP -	Not Sold
167		Onosander. Strategicus, N. Rigaltius notis ill., Gr. et Lat.		1600	GBP -	0.05
168	Hyde T.	Historia religionis vet. Persarum, eorumque Magorum, etc.		1700	GBP -	0.05
169	Latimer H., Taylor Jeremy	Fruitfull Sermons, The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life		1635, 1649	GBP -	Not Sold
170	Hakewill G.	An Answer to a treatise		1616	GBP -	0.10
171	Burges J.	An Answer rejoyned to that much applauded Pamphlet, The Lawful-nes of Kneeling in the Act of receiving the Lord's Supper		1631	GBP -	0.12
172	Barlow Wm.	An Answer to a Catholike English-Man		1609	GBP -	0.10
173	Jacchinus L.	In nonum librum Rasis Arabis medici ad Almansorem Regis, opera ac dil. H. Donzellini		1622	GBP -	0.05
174	Greenaway Kate	A Day in a Child's Life		1881	GBP -	1.05
175	Greenaway Kate	Marigold Garden		1885	GBP -	1.05
176		Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	4.00
177	Cescinsky H.	English Furniture of 18th century		n.d.	GBP -	4.12
178	Heal Sir Ambrose	The English Writing-Masters and their Copy-Books	Cambridge	1570-1800, 1931	GBP -	2.10
179		Amsterdam. State Museum. Original Drawings of the Dutch and Flemish Schools	The Hague	n.d.	GBP -	1.18
180	Macquoid P.	History of English Furniture, Oak, Walnut, Mahogany, Satinwood		1904-8	GBP -	4.15
181		Botanical Water Colour Drawings (68) with 19 of animals, birds, insects, etc., [Wild Flowers of the Neilghery Hills]		1794, 1833	GBP -	5.10
182	Williamson T. and Howitt S.	Oriental Field Sports		1807	GBP -	7.05
183	Dresser H. E.	History of the Birds of Europe		1871-81	GBP -	7.10
184	Cook Capt. James	Atlas of 63 plates and charts to the Third Voyage		1784	GBP -	1.18
185	DANIELL WILLIAM	AND RICHARD AYTON. A VOYAGE ROUND GREAT BRITAIN		1814-25	GBP -	39.00
186	Blaeu Jansson, Mortier, Sanson, N. Visscher, R. de Vaugondy, Laurie and' Whittle, and others	MAPS. A Collection of over 1200 17th, 18th and early 19th Century Maps			GBP -	0.12
187		Coloured Aquatint Views in China, Asia Minor, Italy, Persia, Africa, America (2 only), etc.			GBP -	1.12
188		Coloured Plates of Russian Costume			GBP -	0.18
189		Coloured Plates of Chinese Costume		1814	GBP -	0.18
190		Twenty-four Coloured Plates to Meyrick and Smith's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands R. Havell		1815	GBP -	0.15
191		Coloured Plates of the Costume of Mexico, Alaska, Green-land, South Sea Islands, Switzerland, China, Africa, etc.			GBP -	1.15
192		Coloured Aquatint Views of Balliol, Oriel, All Souls and Magdalen Colleges, from Ackermann's Oxford		1813-14	GBP -	1.02
193	Boydell J. and J.	Collection of Prints for illustrating the Works of Shakespeare		1803	GBP -	6.15
194		Dante. Il codice Cassinese della Divina Commedia		1865	GBP -	0.10
195		Virgilius. Opera	Paris	1798	GBP -	16.10
196		Illuminations		15th century	GBP -	1.15
197	Dürer Albrecht	Vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion, Underwey-sung der messung mit dem zirkel unnd richtscheyt in Linien eben unnd gantzen corporen	Nuremberg	1528, 1525	GBP -	6.00
198	Bacon Sir F.	Operum moralium et civilium tomus, cura G. Rawley		1638	GBP -	2.00
199	Bacon Sir F.	Resuscitatio		1671	GBP -	0.10
200	Bacon Sir F.	Of the Advancement of Learning, Sylva Sylvarum, with Life, etc.		1674, 1669, 1670	GBP -	0.05

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